Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), or necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis, is a rare cause of lymphadenopathy and fever. Although the clinical course is usually benign, KFD is often mistaken for malignancy or infection. Recognition of typical and atypical cases of KFD is necessary to avoid unnecessar...

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Autores principales: Moyer, Amanda, Hanafi, Muhammad Z, Scordino, Teresa, Bronze, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6445562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30989008
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3999
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author Moyer, Amanda
Hanafi, Muhammad Z
Scordino, Teresa
Bronze, Michael
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Bronze, Michael
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description Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), or necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis, is a rare cause of lymphadenopathy and fever. Although the clinical course is usually benign, KFD is often mistaken for malignancy or infection. Recognition of typical and atypical cases of KFD is necessary to avoid unnecessary interventions. Here we report an atypical presentation of KFD with diffuse lymphadenopathy and leukocytosis associated with high levels of circulating Epstein-Barr viral DNA.
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spelling pubmed-64455622019-04-15 Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease Moyer, Amanda Hanafi, Muhammad Z Scordino, Teresa Bronze, Michael Cureus Internal Medicine Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), or necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis, is a rare cause of lymphadenopathy and fever. Although the clinical course is usually benign, KFD is often mistaken for malignancy or infection. Recognition of typical and atypical cases of KFD is necessary to avoid unnecessary interventions. Here we report an atypical presentation of KFD with diffuse lymphadenopathy and leukocytosis associated with high levels of circulating Epstein-Barr viral DNA. Cureus 2019-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6445562/ /pubmed/30989008 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3999 Text en Copyright © 2019, Moyer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Moyer, Amanda
Hanafi, Muhammad Z
Scordino, Teresa
Bronze, Michael
Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_full Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_fullStr Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_full_unstemmed Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_short Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: An Atypical Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_sort kikuchi-fujimoto disease: an atypical presentation of a rare disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6445562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30989008
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3999
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